CH-26. You deserve a better life

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"Sorry, I've never heard of you, and I don't want to join anyone's team!" Clarice said in a deep voice.

"Clarice Ferguson, a Chinese American mutant who can produce crystals and use them to open portals for teleportation or time-space transmission. When you were young, you were afraid of your own abilities and were very scared. Later, after you discovered that you were a mutant, you have been working hard to save your compatriots. Am I right?" Michael looked at her and said with a smile.

Clarice's face changed drastically. She didn't expect that he had investigated her so thoroughly.

"Don't be nervous. I'm investigating you because I think highly of you. Although I'm not a mutant, I have many abilities. One of them is that I can predict the future, which can also be understood as a prophet! I know that the world is facing a catastrophe, and you mutants can't escape it. In the near future, there will be a disaster of genocide. If you want to save mutants, you alone are not enough!"

"So? I can't do it myself, but I can do it by following you? Besides, who knows whether what you said is true or not?" Clarice said in disbelief.

"Because I will not let this world be destroyed, so no matter who it is, as long as they try to destroy and control this world, they are my enemy. For this goal, I am willing to devote my entire life, including my own! As for whether what I said is true or false, you can go and see it with your own eyes."

"If you think I am lying to you, I promise that you can leave at any time!" Michael looked at her sincerely and slowly stretched out his hand, "Isn't it enough for you to wander alone? Join my team, and we will work hard for this world together!"

The word "wandering" hurt Clarice. Although she lived a free life, she lacked care. Whenever she was alone, she always felt lonely. Maybe I should join him? He seemed to be Asian too. What if what he said was true?

"Can you guarantee that you will help if the mutants really face a crisis?" Clarice asked seriously.

"I promise." Michael said earnestly.

"Okay, then I'll follow you for the time being. But let me make it clear that if I find out that you do something different from what you said, I will leave!" Clarice held Michael's hand, and Michael smiled happily.

Although Clarice said that she might leave at any time, it had basically been confirmed that she had joined his team.

He didn't expect the first recruitment to be so successful!

"You know what? Actually, you should have a better name!" Michael looked at her, and under her curious gaze, he slowly said, "From now on, you will be called Blink. Only this name can match you. Believe me... It won't be long before mutants and even the whole world will know this name!"

"Blink? Sounds cool, okay, I'll be called Blink from today!" Clarice—no, now she should be called Blink—nodded with satisfaction and asked, "So what are we going to do now?"

"Let me see your abilities first..." Michael said with a smile.

"With pleasure!"

Clarice said with a smile and threw the crystal in her hand. The space seemed to distort instantly, forming a portal with rippling pink and blue light waves. Clarice quickly jumped in and then disappeared. The next second, a portal appeared behind Michael and above his head. Clarice jumped out of it and kicked toward Michael.

'Want to see my ability? Okay, then I also want to see if your ability is good enough to recruit me!' Clarice thought in her heart, looking at Michael, who seemed to have not noticed yet, as she kicked him directly in the head.

Bang!

Michael didn't turn his head or turn around, as if he had eyes on the back of his head, and he accurately grabbed her ankle with his backhand. Clarice was horrified and hurriedly kicked with her other foot, but suddenly felt that she was thrown out.

The force was not great, so after a brief moment of weightlessness, Clarice quickly adjusted her body and landed safely. After landing, Clarice quickly threw out the crystal and disappeared again.

The corners of Michael's mouth slightly raised as he slowly closed his eyes. The next second, Clarice appeared in front of him and attacked frantically.

"Not fast enough. Your attack is not quick enough. I can easily dodge it even with my eyes closed. If you want to use the portal to suddenly attack the opponent, then your attack must be fast, accurate, and fierce. Otherwise, it will be easy for the opponent to catch you. For example... like this..."

Michael closed his eyes and shook his body slightly, accurately dodging Clarice's attack, then suddenly reached out and grabbed her fist!

"So what? I can escape anytime..."

Clarice said defiantly, preparing to throw the crystal away and run.

But at this moment, she found that her body was out of control. The crystal was in her hand, and no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't throw it out or open the portal!

"No ability is invincible. As long as your body is frozen, you will not be able to use your ability!"

Michael opened his eyes, let her go, and then withdrew his telekinetic control over her.

Seeing Clarice's frustrated look, Michael said comfortingly, "However, any ability can be strengthened through hard work and training. Water overcomes fire, but as long as the fire is strong enough, water cannot extinguish it. Similarly, as long as you are strong enough, my telekinesis control will not be able to deal with you!"

"Okay, I understand!"

Clarice said, curious, "But how many abilities do you have? If you are not a mutant, then what are you?"

"I'm just an ordinary person, but... an ordinary person with special abilities." Michael smiled faintly and said, "You are very capable and can do many things. Therefore, before the crisis comes, you must become stronger, not just as a supporting role, but a warrior who can stand on her own!"

"As a warrior, you lack offensive means. Your ability is your best offensive weapon. You can open and close the portal at any time. As long as you operate it well, you can completely cut the enemy in half! Also, although opening the portal is very cool, the sensitivity is still too low. You can try to throw the crystal at the thing you want to teleport and teleport it directly!"

"That's impossible!" Clarice shook her head and said, "I've tried, but I can only open a portal. I can't use the crystal to teleport directly!"

Michael shook his head seriously, "Don't underestimate your potential. As long as you work hard, there is nothing you can't do!"

"Okay, I'll try my best!" Although Clarice still didn't quite believe that she could do it, Michael's encouragement gave her confidence.

No one had ever encouraged her, and no one had shown her how to improve her abilities and become stronger.

'Maybe... it's not bad to follow him!' Clarice thought to herself.

"Let's go to another place. You deserve a better life." Michael looked around and said with a smile.

Clarice smiled and threw the crystal to open the portal.

Michael and Clarice jumped directly in. A moment later, they appeared in the presidential suite of a high-end hotel.

Obviously, this room was not Clarice's doing, but that was not important. Michael turned around and went out to book the presidential suite. On his way back, he asked the hotel staff to send some food over.

Living in the presidential suite legitimately instead of hiding out using her ability was a brand new experience for Clarice. A vagrant did not have so much money. Although the source of her money was not so clean, she only got a little each time, enough to spend. She had never experienced spending money like Michael.

Michael was good to her, and she didn't want to disappoint him, so she worked hard to improve her abilities time and time again. Although she didn't succeed, she had a goal, and she worked hard for it!

The ability of Clarice was very strong. As long as it was well developed and trained, it would be no problem for her to become someone who could stand on her own!

Be it Michael's plan or the goal given by the system, it was not easy to become the king of this world. Being a lone ranger was not possible, and being a commander without troops was even less so. Therefore, in his plan, it was very necessary to form his own team and build his own power.

A team or a force needed all kinds of talents. They needed network experts like Skye and biologists like Jemma Simmons, but the most important thing was strength—the kind of strength that scares people, makes them convinced, and makes them dare not provoke!

Only in this way could they develop and achieve their goals!

While Clarice was training her abilities, Michael was also not idle, immersed in the system space to study gravitational particles.

This thing just lay there quietly, without any change at all, and no difference could be detected.

If Michael hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would have doubted that this thing had swallowed Dr. Hall.

"System, can I devour it?" Michael asked the system.

[It is now in a completely closed state. After testing, it seems that changes are happening inside it. It should be some kind of self-adjustment ability, so it cannot be absorbed for the time being.]

The system responded.

"Self-adjustment? I'm afraid it's Dr. Hall's fault. So, I can only wait until Dr. Hall absorbs this ability, and then I can absorb Dr. Hall?" Michael said, feeling a bit unhappy. He always had to rely on luck, which left a sour taste.

Dr. Hall, also known as King Wanli, was a ruthless character who had defeated all the members of the Avengers. If Michael wanted to recruit him, he might not be able to control him. Perhaps... the only option would be to absorb him at that time.

"Michael, Michael..."

Michael was lost in thought when he suddenly heard someone calling his name. He snapped back to reality and looked at the flashing lights in front of him that seemed to be a little panicky.